{"id":13574,"date":"2012-05-23T23:50:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T03:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13574"},"modified":"2012-05-24T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T16:15:12","slug":"good-rock-n-roll-songs-about-sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/good-rock-n-roll-songs-about-sailing\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Rock \u2018n Roll Songs About Sailing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q3sJfpriulk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, our 10-year-old boy is a serial song obsessive. He&#8217;ll fall in love with a song, then spend the next week or two playing the same song as many as 30 times in a row, learning the lyrics and mimicking every nuance of the vocals. He&#8217;s not a big fan of long fadeouts, so his love affairs with <strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Always Get What You Want&#8221; and <strong>The Who<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Getting in Tune&#8221; would be cut short and the songs repeated as soon as the extended jams commenced. Once he&#8217;s moved onto a new song he will still circle back every few days with a favorite song from the past. Now that I think about it, it&#8217;s been some time since he&#8217;s started this practice. <strong>David Bowie<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Changes&#8221; was the first song that really caught his ear. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/please-convince-me-what-are-the-words-fo\/\" target=\"_blank\">This 2008 post<\/a> developed out of repeated listens to that song.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, our younger son lives among 3 other rock snobs. His ear is superb and his taste in music is generally strong, although now and then he does get turned onto Top 40 songs like <strong>Adele<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Rolling in the Deep&#8221; from his school friends. (We may have to consider home schooling&#8230;) Past the 15th spin of any song, be it a song I obsessed over as at his age, like <strong>The Band<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down&#8221; or &#8220;Party Rock Anthem&#8221; (as I think it&#8217;s called), my wife, 15-year-old son, and I yell in unison: PUT YOUR HEADPHONES ON!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One song our younger son loves that has cause him and his big brother to literally come to blows over is the <strong>Styx<\/strong> anthem &#8220;Come Sail Away.&#8221; Our boy got into the song thanks to an episode of <em>Freaks and Geeks<\/em>. He loves it the way a 10-year-old was meant to love it. My wife and I can&#8217;t stand that song, but we can admit to appreciating its charms at his age. Our older boy is way too cool for school. He may be cooler than his dad at this point. He won&#8217;t stand for &#8220;Come Sail Away.&#8221; Until the other night.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday night we were driving home from a joint birthday dinner for our recently 14-year-0ld boy and my younger brother, the kid I once assaulted for playing KISS albums in my presence. &#8220;Come Sail Away&#8221; came on the radio. At first I only knew it was a Styx song and that I hated it. Then I thought of our youngest son and the kick he would get from hearing it randomly on the radio. He perked up before I could think better of it and turn the dial. &#8220;Oh no!&#8221; our oldest son moaned in mock horror. Our little guy started singing along at the top of his lungs. My wife joined in. I joined. Even cool guy Big Brother went along with it and joined in. We sang along as we approached our house, trying to match our little guy&#8217;s enthusiasm. We laughed. It was probably the most television-like moment of my life. It was a moment to cherish.<\/p>\n<p>I still hate Styx and that song, and as soon as I got out of the car my Cool-o-meter kicked back in and I had the following thought:\u00a0<em>Excluding anything by <strong>The Beach Boys<\/strong>, who feature a would-be ship&#8217;s Captain in the band, are there any good rock &#8216;n roll songs about sailing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, our 10-year-old boy is a serial song obsessive. He&#8217;ll fall in love with a song, then spend the next week or two playing the same song as many as 30 times in a row, learning the lyrics and mimicking every nuance of the vocals. He&#8217;s not a big fan of long <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/good-rock-n-roll-songs-about-sailing\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[269,641,595],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}